Ep 215: 3 Tools to Ease Back-to-School Anxiety and Build Kids’ Confidence

Back-to-school season can bring plenty of excitement—but for many kids, it also brings worry, uncertainty, and those familiar nervous butterflies. In this episode of The Stress Nanny Podcast, Lindsay Miller shares three practical tools parents can use to help kids navigate back-to-school anxiety with more calm and confidence. You’ll learn why a child’s nervousness about a new teacher, classroom, schedule, friendships, or school is often a completely normal nervous-system response to uncertaint

What if resilience wasn't something you scrambled for in a crisis, but something already woven into the fabric of your family's everyday life? That's the big idea behind this conversation with Dr. Kate Lund, licensed clinical psychologist, resilience expert, and author of Bounce: Help Your Child Build Resilience and Thrive in School, Sports and Life. Dr. Kate brings over two decades of clinical experience, specialized training from three Harvard Medical School affiliated hospitals, and a pers...

This week Lindsay is back with a solo episode, and it's a good one. She's making the case for self-awareness as the single most foundational skill we can give our kids — and unpacking why so many families accidentally skip it entirely. Spoiler: it's not because they don't care. It's because we've been taught to associate self-awareness with selfishness. And that association, Lindsay argues, is completely backwards. What We Cover Why self-awareness is the foundation of emotional intelligence,...

Your teenager came to you upset. You said "go sort yourself out." Here's what they actually needed. In this episode, Lindsay sits down with Laura Ollinger — teen and parent wellbeing coach, speaker and mom of FOUR teenagers (yes, all at once) — for a conversation that is equal parts real talk and practical gold. Laura shares how a personal tragedy and her daughter's anxiety brought her back to school in her 40s, and why she built a coaching practice that works with both kids AND parents — bec...

If your child is an angel at school and a hurricane at home, today's episode is for you. Lindsay introduces the "emotion beach ball" — a simple concept that completely re-frames why regulated kids often struggle most with the people they love. This one is for every parent who has quietly wondered if they're doing something wrong. Resources mentioned: The Stress Nanny Untangling Stress Questionnairethestressnanny.comKey themes: Lindsay Miller is a distinguished kids mindfulness coach, mi...

Money stress has a way of leaking into everything, our sleep, our relationships, and even the way our kids learn what “normal” looks like at home. I’m joined by Lori Atwood, CFP and founder of Fearless Finance, to talk about what changes when financial planning is truly fiduciary and priced in a way regular families can actually use. We dig into why “free” advice often isn’t free at all, how commission and assets-under-management models can quietly shape recommendations, and how an hourly approa